Where there is power, there is resistance.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.